This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ... up to deserved ridicule, constantly reappears in the popular theology and ethics. Such arrogance Pope finely rebukes: --' Nothing is foreign--Parts relate to Whole: One all-extending, all-preserving Soul Connects each being, greatest with the least--Made beast in aid of man, and man of beast: All served, all serving- ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ... up to deserved ridicule, constantly reappears in the popular theology and ethics. Such arrogance Pope finely rebukes: --' Nothing is foreign--Parts relate to Whole: One all-extending, all-preserving Soul Connects each being, greatest with the least--Made beast in aid of man, and man of beast: All served, all serving--nothing stands alone. Has God, thou fool, worked solely for thy good, Thy joy, thy pastime, thy attire, thy food? Is it for thee the Lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the Linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and rapture swell the note. The bounding Steed, you pompously bestride, Shares with his lord the pleasure and the pride. Know, Nature's children all divide her care The fur that warms a monarch warmed a Bear. While Man exclaims, 'See all things for my use!' 'See Man for Mine!' replies a pampered Goose. And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all." He then paints the picture of the "Times of Innocence " of the Past, or (as it is better applied) of the Future: --"No murder clothed him, and no murder fed. In the same temple--the resounding wood--All vocal beings hymned their equal God. The shrine, with gore unstained, with gold undrest, Unbribed, unbloody, stood the blameless priest. Heaven's attribute was universal care, And man's prerogative to rule but spare. Ah, how unlike the man of times to come--Of half that live the butcher and the tomb! Who, foe to Nature, hears the general groan, Murders their species and betrays his own. But just disease to luxury succeeds, And every death its own avenger breeds: The fury passions from that blood began, And turned on man a fiercer savage, man." Whenever occasion arises, the poet ...
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